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Posted by nubuckaroo
1999-08-06 14:19:57

Thanks Dave!

And thank you for the public service you’ve performed by persuading Symantec to allow the release of More and the rest.

The subject of More has been something of a hot topic on the MacLaw mailing list. Some of the subscribers have never stopped using More 3.1.

I started using outline software with ThinkTank on an Apple //e. I read about it in Jerry Pournelle’s column in Byte, probably in 1984. I liked it so much, I bought an Apple //c to use at work so I could run my office on ThinkTank.

I’ve just started playing around with More 3.0, it looks and runs fine on my PM6500/225 with OS 8.5.1.

I’m also a big user and proponent of another dead outliner, WebArranger (originally Arrange). One of the neat features about Arrange is the “grabber” which will copy text selections in any open application and dump them into a “clippings” topic when you next launch Arrange. I’m using it to develop an outline of the history of communications to parallel the growth of bandwidth (not just the electromagnetic kind) with the improvement in the human condition. I’m optimistic that the internet is the kind of quantum leap in communications which will lead to tremendous human progress. At least history seems to indicate it should.

The only downside to Arrange is an 8K limit to text in “notes” which is the fundamental unit of the application.

I’m going to look at using OneClick to automate portions of More 3.0 and perhaps WebArranger to enable some kind of communication between the two. If I find the time.

Anyway, again, thanks.
Dave Rogers

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